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...Double Life. At Baylor University in Waco, Texas, Baptist Butt specialized in the Bible and business administration, after graduation put in a year at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary studying New Testament, social ethics, preaching. Then, convinced that the ministry was not for him, he married and went to work in the family's business. But invitations to speak came to him more and more often. Billy Graham asked him to help out at several of his revivals, and before long, young Howard found himself living a kind of Christian double life...
...Waco, Texas...
...Waco. Texas in October 1952, Presidential Candidate Dwight Eisenhower dwelled on "the absurdity of the situation in Washington." The Department of Agriculture, he pointed out. was distributing a booklet telling the housewife how to wash dishes. "Now someone whose salary is paid by the taxpayer's money made a remarkable discovery and put it right in the booklet," said Candidate Eisenhower. "He says dishes should be washed in a dishpan, not just any dishpan, either. The Department of Agriculture says you will want a pan large enough to accommodate your dishes. But it must also fit into your sink...
...latch on to complete words (e.g., WANT, KING, WREN, KID, KEEP). Others seek home-town identification with abbreviations or by using the first three letters of their respective cities, as WBAL in Baltimore and WNYC for New York's municipal station. None has surpassed the simplicity of station WACO in Waco, Texas...
...football field at Austin at week's end, Baylor's backfield perfectionists (Waco nickname: the "Fearsome Foursome") put on an elegant demonstration of running, passing and blocking for each other. They also committed four fumbles (one each), all scooped up by Texas, and two of them led promptly to Texas touchdowns. Final score: Red Candles 21, Green Candles...